A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.